WMATA announced this morning that the new S9 Metrobus route, offering express bus service along 16th Street, will launch on Monday, March 30. A ribbon cutting ceremony has also been scheduled for 10 a.m. that morning, at the stop at 16th Street and Columbia Rd. NW. The S9 route will be serviced by blue and silver hybrid-electric buses, which will be branded separately with “express” labels to differentiate them from the S1, S2 and…

We missed the formal announcement toward the end of last week that Metro’s board has approved the new S9 Metrobus line, the long-discussed 16th Street rush hour express bus. Metro says it plans to begin S9 service as early as the end of March. Instead of the more than 80 stops on the S1, S2 and S4 routes between Silver Spring and Federal Triangle or Potomac Park, the S9 will serve only 16 stops…